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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Family Support and Gender Affirming Behaviors Predict Transgender People’s Psychological Well-Being

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Social

  • Charlene Johnson
    Indiana State University
  • Veanne Anderson
    Indiana State University

Abstract

We studied factors associated with transgender people’s psychological well-being. Family support, intimacy with a partner, taking hormones, and having gender affirming surgeries were associated with less anxiety, less depression, and greater life satisfaction. Psychological well-being was also associated with less desire to conceal one’s gender identity and less internalized transphobia.

Gender Issues/Sex Roles